Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

patients’ negative views of the pharmaceutical industry in this study was the opioid epidemic. Over one-half of Americans blame pharmaceutical companies as most responsible for the opioid crisis, followed by physicians, whom 39% of health consumers blame, and patients, whom 38% of people blame. Exacerbating U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Each year, ECRI (the ECRI Institute) publishes an annual report on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for the year. The 2025 list was published today. My read of it is that most of these risks have to do with what I’ve been referring to as the Human OS, the Human Operating System, in my talks and teachings.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

Capgemini offers recommendations to providers, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device manufacturers to tap opportunities outside of inpatient settings and, increasingly, to the home and digital device. These trends point to more care being demanded by patients outside of the legacy care system, at home and via more virtual platforms.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

had the highest pharmaceutical spending per capita of $1,443 versus $749 for the other nations, roughly double. varied, with that 10% of health citizens lacking coverage for basic health care. Some of the key findings on America’s higher costs/poorer outcomes are that: The U.S. Access and quality of care in the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The challenges and opportunities of integrating social determinants of health into care delivery. Health Policy: The impact of healthcare policy on patient outcomes and access to care. Climate Change and Health: Examining the health implications of climate change and strategies for sustainable healthcare practices.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2018

EpiPen pricing mainstreamed the issue of pharmaceutical costs as a democratized (small “d”) issue in 2016, when Mylan grew the cost of a two-pack to about $600. This caused patients, parents and caregivers outrage, and gave tremendous visibility to the issue of drug prices in the context of overall health care costs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2025

As Weight Watchers prepares to initiate bankruptcy proceedings, I file the news event under “thinking the unthinkable.” ” “Thinking about the unthinkable” is what Herman Kahn, a father of scenario planning, asked us to do when he pioneered the process.

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Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

platforming telehealth with weight loss and the fast-growing medicine category — such as Eli Lilly Direct, the pharmaceutical company planning to go direct-to-consumer to channel patients’ access to and use of Zepbound for weight loss (partnering with Amazon’s pharmacy for delivery).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy.

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Health Populi

APRIL 26, 2019

It’s a rational response, then, that 9 in 10 older voters agree that pharmaceutical companies “make too much profits,” once again consistent — equally felt — by older voters across all three political parties, shown in the second bar chart.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed major weaknesses in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

” These ratings cover over 2,100 pharmaceutical brands for which over 40,000 having submitted opinions. As of March 2018, there were over 3 million data points on over 600,000 drug ratings in the SERMO database, which the company terms “the FICO score for drugs.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2019

citizens together is agreement that the cost of health care is too high in the country, and that pharma, health plans, and providers are to blame. Welcome to health politics in America as of March 2019, according to The Public and High U.S. But one issue that brings U.S.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 9, 2018

This piece, written by Emily Kopp, Sydney Lupkin, and Elizabeth Lucas, originally appeared on Kaiser Health News , which authorized the republication. The first-of-its-kind database, compiled by Kaiser Health News, tallies the money from Big Pharma to patient groups. The database identifies over 1,200 patient groups.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2019

Today, as Congress kicks off hearings about the cost of prescription drugs in the United States, IQVIA published its 2019 report on The Global Use of Medicine in 2019 and Outlook to 2023. The top-line of the research is the robust pharma market growth will be driven by two factors, and limited by two others: spending in the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The idea of health care consumerism isn’t just an American discussion, Deloitte points out in its 2019 global survey of healthcare consumers report, A consumer-centered future of health.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In the past few years, what event or innovation has had the metaphorical impact of hitting you upside the head and disrupted your best-laid plans in health care? A few such forces for me have been the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of Chat-GPT, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

voters were driven to polls with health care on their minds. The key issues for health care voters were costs (for care and prescription drugs) and access (read: protecting pre-existing conditions and expanding Medicaid). In the 2018 mid-term elections, U.S. Issue #2 for 2018 voters was the economy.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Patients are the new healthcare payors, and as such, taking on the role of health consumers. In fact, health and wellness consumers have existed since a person purchased the first toothpaste, aspirin, heating pad, and moisturizing cream at retail.

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mHealth Insight

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Topics/Speakers will include: Introduction & Background Prof David Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, UCL. Community Pharmacy in Primary Care Mr Steve Brine, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Primary Care and Public Health at UK Dept of Health & MP for Winchester (invited).

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Data buyers range from health policy researchers to pharmaceutical companies and marketing corporations. A NEW MODEL FOR DATA SHARING An overwhelming majority of patients are willing to share their medical data with patients, doctors, researchers and even pharmaceutical companies.

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Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2022

The financial toxicity of health care costs in the U.S. takes center stage in Health Populi this week as several events converge to highlight medical debt as a unique feature in American health care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Lululemon has published the 2024 Global Well-Being Report , a study into peoples’ perspectives on their personal health from the company best known for athleisure wear and self-care. This year’s report is titled, The Pressure to Be Well. That pressure is coming from peoples’ experiencing “well-being burnout.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 8, 2022

cut back on healthcare due to costs in the first half of 2022, according to the latest poll on health care costs form Gallup and West Health , gauging Americans’ financial health in June 2022. Nearly 100 million people in the U.S. That’s the month when inflation in the U.S. reached 9.1%, a 40-year high.

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Health Populi

MAY 23, 2022

When we think about the state of Trust in in mid-2022, there is some good news: Trust is rising (at least in democratic countries, while falling in autocratic ones). The bad news: the gap in Trust has dramatically widened between higher-income people compared with those earning lower-incomes, globally.

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Health Populi

JUNE 4, 2019

Employers, health care providers, unions, leaders and — first and foremost, consumers — must come together to build a more accessible, affordable health care system in America, proposes a call-to-action fostered by a Families USA coalition called Consumers First: The Alliance to Make the Health Care System Work for Everyone.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Here’s a link to the 30-minute conversation, where Marc combed through the over 500 endnotes from HealthConsuming ‘s appendix to explore the patient as the new health care payor, the Amazon prime-ing of people, and prospects for social determinants of health to bolster medicines “beyond the pill.”.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Jain, physician executive with government, pharmaceutical, payer and provider experience, joins Board. Dr. Jain, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has 20 years of experience in clinical medicine, health policy, managed care and healthcare delivery leadership. Dr. Jain contributes healthcare delivery reform insight.

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